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As an example, strictly from the point of view of function, experience and capability, the Council's Recreation Select Committee and Culture and Entertainment Select Committee can perform a territory-wide advisory role, assisting whenever they can in what the New Territories arm of the Urban Services Department is presently handling entirely on a departmental level.
Another possibility could be the pragmatic expansion of the Council's statutory and non-statutory activities in addition to culture and sports; this requires careful study both by Government and by the Council itself.
Meantime, through its District Relations Select Committee, the Council is monitoring its relationship with the District Board system in order to ensure, firstly, that there is the closest possible co-operation at all levels so that services interlock and are complementary, and, secondly, that they do not duplicate or conflict.
So until the picture becomes clearer later on, a top priority of this Council will be the re-organizing of its structure and procedures so as to collaborate fully with the ten urban District Boards in improving the quality of life all round of our four million urban residents.
Hong Kong, being an international free port and industrial and trading centre, has a long-term future with the capacity of contributing significantly to China's modernization programmes. It is the Urban Council's hope, in close co-operation with Government, for Hong Kong to continue as a city where Asian and Western cultures blend harmoniously together within a creative and humane society.
The question was put.
The motion was carried unanimously.
ADJOURNMENT — 4.51 p.m.
CHAIRMAN (in English): That concludes the business of today's meeting. Council stands adjourned until Tuesday, 9 March 1982 at 4.00 p.m.
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HONG KONG URBAN COUNCIL
As an example, strictly from the point of view of function, experience and capability, the Council's Recreation Select Committee and Culture and Entertainment Select Committee can perform a territory-wide advisory role, assisting whenever they can in what the New Territories arm of the urban Services Department is presently handling entirely on a departmental level.
Another possibility could be the pragmatic expansion of the Council's statutory and non-statutory activities in addition to culture and sports; this requires careful study both by Government and by the Council itself.
Meantime, through its District Relations Select Committee, the Council is monitoring its relationship with the District Board system in order to ensure, firstly, that there is the closest possible co-operation at all levels so that services interlock and are complementary, and, secondly, that they do not duplicate or conflict.
So until the picture becomes clearer later on, a top priority of this Council will be the re-organizing of its structure and procedures so as to collaborate fully with the ten urban District Boards in improving the quality of life all round of our four million urban residents.
Hong Kong, being an international free port and industrial and trading centre, has a long-term future with the capacity of contributing significantly to China's modernization programmes. It is the Urban Council's hope, in close co- operation with Government, for Hong Kong to continue as a city where Asian and Western cultures blend harmoniously together within a creative and humane society.
The question was put.
The motion was carried unanimously.
ADJOURNMENT — 4.51 p.m.
CHAIRMAN (in English):-That concludes the business of today's meeting. Council stands adjourned until Tuesday, 9 March 1982 at 4.00 p.m.
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